Wyoming’s entire congressional delegation was in attendance at memorial services for Peggy June Adams Shreve in Cody Friday, a telling tribute to a pioneer legislator in Park County. Peg Shreve died Oct. 27, 2012, in Cody at the age of 85.

Population in the tiny town of Ralston in northwest Wyoming swells ten-fold for a few days each June.

It's all about mules. It's always the week of Father's Day.

Events begin Wednesday, June 13 and last through Sunday, June 17. It’s the 15th anniversary edition of Jake Clark's Mule Days to roll through Ralston, seven miles west of Powell in Park County. Mule Days brings crowds of up to 1,500 to the hamlet, which is home to a population of scantly over 100 for the rest of the year.

Or even more to the point, the Oilfield Motel sign won’t hang this summer.

The buzz that had a large integrated energy services company buying a local motel spread like wildfire in the community in the last week. It turns out the story had more legs than traction.

Talk had it that the Super 8 Motel had been purchased — or at least a large bloc of rooms had been leased for the summer — to house employees of the oil and gas servicing company. Melody Robertson, manager of the Super 8, says there is no truth to the story, and there has been no contact for large scale room rental.

At a special Monday night membership meeting announced by email, officers and board members of the Powell Valley Chamber of Commerce followed up the surprise dismissal of the chamber manager and office staff with a pledge to retool the organization to serve members.